celia
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Duly noted. I'm not the target demographic for YA stuff. But I thought I'd check a few really popular books. I didn't learn anything of value.
A court series would actually be more a NA book if the NA has managed to be popular. Instead they just put it in YA without changing anything to the books. That's why some bloggers and readers can be quite bitter to see it win awards in YA since it shouldn't be here. There is also the problem of the graphic sex descriptions that belong more to erotica or the non clean romance than YA. I don't mean there is no sex in YA, but it is usually short and not that graphic.
I actually think Maas has improved a lot her writing. We can see a clear difference between her first book and any other (well maybe not the prequel). Don't think ToG is the best among YA, well the first book isn't at all.
When I start reading ToG, I knew I had to read too the 2nd book, because many reviewers that hated or disliked the first book really liked the second.
I would advise more to read Six of Crows from Bardugo (not her first series because she has improved a lot and it is more for female readers), Strange the Dreamer from Laini Taylor or The Lie Tree from Hardinge for YA fantasy.
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Finished reading The Wicked King by Holly Black. It was good but I like better the first book even if except the first pages, the beginning was quite boring.
Started reading a novella In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children #4) by Seanan McGuire.
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